Joel Pitney
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Posts by Joel Pitney
Rebels Without a Cause
April 30, 2010 - 8:37 pm
Tags: Brooklyn, Gen Y, hipsters, Millennial, narcissism, Portland, Williamsburg
Posted in Culture, Gen Y, Postmodernism | No comments
Hipsters have been on my mind lately. Not because I’m particularly interested in the edgy, ironic music and fashion trends that these millennial generation rebels are known for. I’m curious about the deeper cultural predicament that this strange youth movement seems to represent—one that I think has some serious implications for the future of humanity.
So [...]
The Fresh Prince of Self-Mastery
February 6, 2010 - 10:17 am
Tags: conviction, intention, self mastery, will, Will Smith
Posted in Comedy, Culture, Pop Culture, Uncategorized | 1 comment
I always knew that Will Smith was a great actor…and a pretty good musician too. I’ve also always admired the positive down-to-earth spirit that he conveyed on and off camera–a rare quality among Hollywood megastars. But I never knew what made the Fresh Prince so fresh until this week when I came across this video [...]
Evolving the YouTube Generation
July 11, 2009 - 8:02 pm
Tags: current tv, Gen Y, jason silva, max lugavere, media, still up
Posted in Gen Y, Pop Culture | No comments
This past Friday I interviewed Jason Silva and Max Lugavere, two 27-year-old producers and co-hosts of Current TV, the Emmy-award-winning cable network started by Al Gore in 2005 that has since become the fastest growing network in TV history. Picked out of hundreds of applicants, Silva and Lugavere have become the faces of the network, [...]
Are You a Narcissist?
July 6, 2009 - 4:06 pm
Tags: baby boomers, gen x, Gen Y, Jean Twenge, narcissism, psychology, The Narcissism Epidemic
Posted in Culture, Gen Y, Postmodernism | 1 comment
I recently interviewed San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge about her new book, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. The book is quite an achievement and deserves all of the attention it’s been getting from Newsweek and other media outlets. Bringing together an overwhelming amount of evidence from recent [...]
Why We Need to Compare Ourselves to Others
June 19, 2009 - 10:06 am
Tags: Basketball, Jean Twenge, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, narcissism, National Basketball Association, NBA, The Narcissism Epidemic
Posted in Gen Y, Pop Culture, Postmodernism | No comments
This past weekend, I watched Kobe Bryant win his fourth National Basketball Association title as his team, the Los Angeles Lakers, defeated their opponent, the Orlando Magic, four games to one in a best of seven series. While the victory was definitely a team effort, Bryant, who was voted MVP of the play-offs, stood out [...]
I Can’t Live Without It
June 17, 2009 - 12:21 pm
Tags: creativity, depth, hierarchy, jazz, meditation, music, spiritual teachers, spirituality
Posted in Evolutionary Enlightenment | No comments
On this past Friday’s Howie Rose Show (Burlington, VT), we hosted classical flutist, jazz musician, and senior student of Andrew Cohen’s teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment Rodrigo Tarraza to speak about meditation and why he can’t live without it. Specifically, we wanted to know about the relationship between meditation and creativity.
What he had to say was [...]
It’s So Hard to Be Goode
June 11, 2009 - 1:51 pm
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This past Wednesday evening, I could hardly believe my eyes when I watched the season premier of The Goode Family, a new animated sitcom on ABC by Mike Judge (along with John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky). The show, which chronicles the trials and tribulations of an environmentally-responsible, culturally-sensitive middle class American family, was absolutely hilarious. [...]
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